Q&A
Challenges and progress in DSNY fleet electrification efforts
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Council Member Abreu asks about DSNY's progress in electrifying its fleet. Deputy Commissioner Goodman explains the department's efforts and challenges, particularly with heavy-duty collection trucks.
- DSNY is making substantial progress in electrifying everything except heavy-duty collection trucks
- Electrification of bike lane sweepers, full-size street sweepers, passenger cars, and pickup trucks is ongoing
- Current electric technology for heavy-duty vehicles is not sufficient for the dual use of trash collection and snow plowing
Joshua Goodman
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electrifying its fleet.
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So electrification is a first, let me say that you are absolutely right that the amount of trucks out of service increased.
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As the MMR points out, this was due to budget reduction for the amount of mechanics that we have.
Shaun Abreu
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Just guess what it is.
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The
Joshua Goodman
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electrification, we are making substantial progress on electrifying everything except the collection trucks.
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We are planning to electrify and are actually making a lot of progress.
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The bike lane sweepers, the the full size street sweepers.
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We have the first guy that truck is called a class 7 street sweeper.
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That's what the full size is called.
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We have the 1st fully electric class 7 street sweeper in the world.
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And we are continuing to electrify that fleet.
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All of our passenger cars, our pickup trucks, all of that stuff.
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We are making a lot of progress, and we are on track to meet the city's aggressive goals around fleet electrification.
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On the collection truck, our heavy duty fleet.
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There is currently no viable electrification option.
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We piloted an electric collection truck, and it worked great for picking up trash.
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It was really good at that, but it was not able to handle the work of plowing the snow.
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Obviously, we've gotten less snow than most of our lives over the last couple of years.
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There is no way to know whether that will continue or not.
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But the electric technology for heavy duty vehicles that exists today is not sufficient for the dual use of our fleet, trash collection, and snow clearing.
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So we're electrifying everything
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